“Threats, Harassment, Vandalism At Mosques Reach Record High”

Mosque near Indianapolis — When I visited the Friday prayer service here at the Plainfield, Indiana, headquarters of the Islamic Society of North America in October 2012, the imam who preached the sermon that day told me afterwards that he would shortly be voting for Mitt Romney for president.
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/10/living/mosques-attack-study-2015/index.html

This is very unfortunate.

I hope, though, that the apparent absence of such attacks from the Mormon Kulturgebiet will continue.

One other observation: Some will say that American Muslims ought to be focusing more on the denunciation of acts of violence done in the name of their faith than on complaining about vandalism and slights done to them.

I’m not unsympathetic to that point. More Muslims have been denouncing jihadi violence than many Americans seem to realize, but, until virtually all Americans are aware of those denunciations, they won’t have been loud or frequent enough. For good or ill, that’s the simple fact. The outrage from within the Muslim community at what’s being done in the name of Islam needs to become a deafening roar.

And it should be noted that American Jews, too, carefully record incidents of harassment, vandalism, and threats. And that there are apparently considerably more such acts against Jews than against Muslims:

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2012/topic-pages/victims/victims_final

But such incidents simply ought not to occur. Period. Against either Jews or Muslims.

Or any other group, for that matter.